Giancarlo Mora Arias
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
San José, San José Province, Costa Rica
Toptal member since April 14, 2022
Giancarlo is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), and Linux Certified Administrator (LPIC). He has strong skills related to sysadmin, SRE, GitOps, DevNet, DevSecOps, and DevOps in general. IT is a fast-growing industry, and Giancarlo values continuous development and taking risks that lead to innovations in the field.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 8 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- DevOps - 6 years
- Configuration Management - 5 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 2 years
- Terraform - 2 years
- Serverless - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), DevOps, Linux, Configuration Management, Kubernetes, Cloud, CI/CD Pipelines, Automation, System Administration
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is an IoT health application deployed in Asian hospitals as on-prem and SaaS for American hospitals.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Sudo
- Architected the AWS infrastructure for an IoT application. Everything is serverless and running as a Docker container on ECS and Lambda.
- Created the infrastructure with Terraform; every new customer subscribing will spin a Terraform execution completely automated.
- Protected all the data with the corresponding HIPAA regulations, including logging, encryption, and the highest security standards.
- Acted as product owner, created a roadmap for the product delivery, and did all the corresponding planning.
Senior AWS Architect
Codename Design Inc.
- Created the development and production environment using AWS ECS, dockerized the application, put the database into RDS, and implemented autoscaling.
- Built a CI/CD pipeline for the development and production environment using GitHub Actions.
- Documented all the infrastructure with Loom and diagrams so the engineering team could work on the project.
AWS Architect
Adroit Trading Technologies, LLC
- Migrated the application from on-premise to the AWS Cloud, not manually; everything was created with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform. Created the modules for computing, networking, load balancers, and monitoring.
- Created all EC2 AMIs as code with Packer and its corresponding pipeline with Azure DevOps.
- Implemented logging and monitoring with Datadog for the EC2 servers, S3 buckets, RDS databases, and VPC logs.
Site Reliability Engineer
FinLink GmbH
- Migrated the monitoring solution (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) to a new region using infrastructure as code (Terraform), Kubernetes (AKS), and Azure.
- Researched the solution for monitoring for the CTO, team leads, developers, and customer support.
- Planned and managed the monitoring implementation from beginning to end.
DevOps Consultant
Coin
- Oversaw the infrastructure automation for blockchain wallet and swap as a consultant.
- Identified the cloud footprint in both GCP and AWS, documented the resources, and found areas for improvement.
- Provided the support required for the developer to speed up the time to market with self-healing, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cargill
- Automated more than 27,000 network devices spread worldwide, including switches, routers, and firewalls.
- Created all the automation with Jenkins pipelines to execute the Ansible playbooks based on the business needs.
- Created the configuration management playbooks with Ansible to reduce human error and enforce the desired state with zero-touch provisioning.
- Managed a technical team, internal members, and contractors to achieve the goals in our roadmap.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Neustar
- Moved all the AWS infrastructure from a manual approach creation to code with pipelines and configuration management.
- Owned the infrastructure for an application with more than 90 million requests per day.
- Implemented SRE practices with tools like Prometheus, collectd, Monit, and Grafana to gain visibility of the application health.
- Migrated the applications to Docker containers to set a standard across all the applications we had in the organization.
L2 Customer Support Architect
Crossover
- Handled escalations from the first level of support, finding the root causes and working directly with customers worldwide.
- Used a wide variety of tools and technologies and provided technical support for six different products.
- Created the technical documentation for the first level of support troubleshooting to lower the escalation rates and improve productivity.
System Administrator and Support
Intel
- Troubleshot and owned Linux servers, from Bash scripting to NetApp storage troubleshooting. I also owned the productivity tools of the organization.
- Became the tech lead of the department and point of contact for the stakeholders in America.
- Interviewed and trained the new team members, working as their mentor to ramp up.
Experience
IP Geolocation
https://www.home.neustar/resources/tools/ip-geolocation-lookup-toolNetwork Automation
Healthcare IoT Applications
All the infrastructure is managed as code ( IaC ) with Terraform and the biggest challenge to tackle was to keep HIPAA compliance with every service logging measure, encryption, and so on.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
UNED - San José, Costa Rica
Certifications
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
Linux Administrator
Linux Professional Institute
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline, Node.js, AWS Amplify
Tools
Ansible, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, AWS IAM, AWS CLI, CloudOps, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Grafana, Terraform, NGINX, AWS CloudFormation, AWS ELB, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, Logging, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Chef, Git, Jenkins, Apache, MQTT, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS Step Functions, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Cognito, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Key Management, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Systems Manager, AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), ELK (Elastic Stack), Kibana, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Packer, GitHub, Sudo
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), DevSecOps, Automation, Serverless Architecture, HIPAA Compliance, Azure DevOps, Continuous Deployment
Platforms
Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CentOS, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, Zendesk, Linux, Windows, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Blockchain, AWS IoT, AWS Lambda, AWS IoT Core, Azure, Heroku, AWS ALB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Windows Server, Blockchain Platforms
Storage
PostgreSQL, On-premise, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, Amazon Aurora, AWS Snowball, Elasticsearch, Datadog
Languages
Bash, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Python 3, Groovy, Bash Script
Frameworks
Spark, Serverless Framework, Apache Spark, Angular, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Windows PowerShell
Other
Cloud, System Administration, Configuration Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Architecture, AWS DevOps, Cloud Security, AWS Cloud Architecture, Orchestration, App Support, Software Troubleshooting, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Low Latency, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Cloud Migration, IT Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Linux Server Administration, Serverless, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Monitoring, Incident Management, Amazon RDS, Agile DevOps, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Packet Communication, TCP/IP, Network Optimization, Security Architecture, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Kubernetes Operations (kOps), GitOps, Scripting, IT Support, Prometheus, Networking, Firewalls, Product Owner, IoT Security, Big Data, Networks, Cisco, Check Point, Routing, Groovy Scripting, Network Automation, Versal, Load Balancers, Site Reliability, Collectd, Patches & Updates, Amazon Inspector, ECS, Fargate, Lambda Functions, Forums & Social Networking Portals, GitHub Actions, DevOps Engineer, Compliance, Identity & Access Management (IAM), API Gateways, Amazon Kinesis, AWS CodePipeline, Relational Database Services (RDS), Amazon Timestream, Amazon Neptune, VPC, DNS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon API Gateway, AWS WAF, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Amazon GuardDuty, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Elastic Load Balancers, Network Monitoring, IIS, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, SysOps
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